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Feb 2024
19m 25s

Biden leans into abortion rights for US ...

Al Jazeera
About this episode

“Chaos.” “Confusion.” Ever since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, doctors, activists and abortion-seekers have had to navigate a new reality for reproductive care. It’s made finding care in states like Texas, with a near-total ban on abortions, especially challenging. As the US prepares for an election, the Biden campaign has vowed to restore abortion rights. Can it?

In this episode: 

  • Dr. Jessica Rubino, Family Medicine Physician Specializing in Abortion Care
  • Holly Bowles, Director, Sexual Assault Victim Advocacy at SAFE Alliance (@SAFEatx)
  • Cathy Torres (@_cathythebaddie), Organizing Manager at Frontera Fund (@fronterafundgrv)
  • Amanda Becker (@AmandaBecker), 19th News Washington Correspondent 

Episode credits:

This episode was produced by Sonia Bhagat, with Amy Walters, Chloe K. Li and our host, Malika Bilal. Miranda Lin fact-checked this episode.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.

Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.

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